18 thoughts on “Cuts, Cuts, and More Cuts: Protesting “Target” for trying to open on Thanksgiving”

AS far as the issue with The United States Postal Service…Check the law that was passed in 2006 that “REUQIRES A PREPAYMENT INTO THE RETIREMENT FUND of $5.5 BILLION EVERY YEAR” That is when USPS started to go in the redd and what should be done to solve issues of “BUDGET” is simple and the people working in many plants have told upper management but they do not listen and the UNIONS of each group, Clerks, Mailhandlers and Carriers they all work together with management. THE MAIN SIMPLE thing that could be done is MAKE ALL THSE that have worked for OVER 30 years “MANDATORILLY RETIRE” by 31 Dec so that next year the force reduction would eliminate the “WASTEFUL JOBS” because of the decline in mail volume over tthe past 5 years…NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE HAVE RETIRED…because they have no “MANDATORY RETIREMENT DATE” so they stay on doing little or nothing but still getting paid and the UNIONS SADLY support them. IT is awful having UNIONS controlling you when you don’t want it and there is little or nothing to be done about it. Getting another job is not the answer and understanding that OUR GOVERNMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL AND BY SAYING THIS I MEAN THE CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENT and ALL THE AGENCIES….REFORM IS WHAT AMERICA NEEDS…….Getting there is gonna take many years of changing out the “CRONY POLITICIANS” for “PATRIOTIC , HONEST PEOPLE” THIS WE MUST DO ! ! ! This is my perspective…AMERICANS MUST STAND up for their “CONSTITUTION” and get America turned around and going in “THE RIGHT DIRECTION” and it begins with VOTING OUT THE CORRUPT POLITICIANS NOW AND GOING FORWARD ! ! ! IF people will get off their (Quoting BHO) “LAZY BUTTS” and get involved in community politics, vote and run for office if they are so inclined and qualified, get all the “LIARS , THIEVES and SOCIALIST/MARXISTS OUT” ! ! ! STAND UNITED FOR THE REPUBLIC ! ! !

Hard to know where to start here because you have touched so many problems that all stem from the same root cause. The unions have made slaves of the people and the government has created an entitlement attitude for every special interest group.

SB 5 was only a baby step toward helping solve some of the governments financial problems. Anyone who read the bill could see that the main changes made were ones that were added in 1983 when the governor, senate and house were all controled by union supported democrats. Anyone with a modicum of common sense could have predicted that the “gifts” given to the union were unsustainable. There isn’t enough money in the taxpayers pockets to pay off these contracts. Unfortunately, the people who gave in to the unions are no longer around to pay for their folly.

As for the financial woes of Monroe, this too could have been prevented. Unfortunately, there was a group of “newcomers” that decided that the Monroe schools were not good enough for their little darlings. So they passed a bond issue to build a huge new “educational complex.” This created a huge debt to the people of the small town of Monroe. Anyone who knows a thing about school funding knows that bond money can only be used for specific purposes and those are written into the ballot proposal. These bonds were issued for only what are called “permanent improvements.”

The “General Fund” is to be used for the daily expenses, salaries etc. of the district. This is the levy fund that comes up on the ballot every so often. Both the treasurer and the superintendent are well aware of this fact.

The article states that money was taken from bond money and put into the “General Fund” for unpaid debts of $335,000.00 incurred from April through July. (This was not legal.) Why did they keep spending money they didn’t have? At the end of May the treasurer has to present to the board a five year plan with the districts total financial information and predictions for the next five years. How could she have conformed to the law if she was stealing money from the “permanent improvement” bond fund? She couldn’t. Lolli says “she suspected” that there would be a $2.7 million shortfall.” Doesn’t she know? Why hasn’t she done anything about this before the district arrived at this point?

Lolli is one of those “double dippers.” She was so indispensible that the Moneroe board allowed her to retire and then rehired her. Is their no one in the country that can handle finances better than she is doing? By the way, her husband is the superintendent in Springboro. Like I said before, keeping it in the “circle.”

Then they say they received a $1.4 million loan. (Doesn’t this put them further in debt?) Were the taxpayers made aware of their additional debt? Do they make any corrections or adjustments? Hell no. They keep spending and spending on things that the board has “not voted on.” The board is just as guilty as Lolli and the treasurer. The law says that the superintendent and treasurer are to be two separate entities ant that they are not to intermingle the positions, but each is directly and “individually” responsible to the board. This is generally called separation of powers. Where was the board?

The problem is that the boards do not assert their power because of the OSBA indoctrination and their loyalty to the union. Superintendents usually help pick weak treassurers “that they can work with.” There are no financial experts in the entire system. There are treasurers out there that handle millions and millions of dollars of the taxpayers hard earned dollars that have only clerical type of experience.

Additionally, a salary freeze is not called cutting expenses. Cutting salaries is called cutting expenses. Changing class schedules to where the teachers actually “teach” all day (except their lunch time) is called cutting expenses, taking away cell phones and credit cards from every Tom, Dick and Harriett is called cutting expenses. Combining classes to a lecture period and then “go on line” would cut out plenty of expenses. Also, cutting out some of the politically correct classes and keeping “core” subjects could go a long way to streamline wasted time.

Teachers need to work a full year. They are no better than anyone else. The union has fought year round school. Why build these luxurious, air conditioned buildings and then close them. We are no longer an agricultual society. The kids are not needed for farm labor. Year round school would save millions and solve many other problems. School choice would also solve many problems. Give people a choice and that would create competition. Many teachers would be willing to work for less if they didn’t have to deal with a union that they disagree with. The unions will fight any change and it is time for the taxpayers to say ENOUGH!!!!

Great post Sandra! That’s the kind of thing we don’t hear about in the news. If people were better informed they could make better decisions on election day.

As for the Post Office, here’s my wife’s theory: the Post Office is broke because they have become a low-cost delivery service for junk mail. At least 90% of the huge volume of mail we receive a week is credit card offers and other junk mail. It literally takes us an hour a week to go through it all and shred the credit card offers and throw away or recycle the rest. An hour!! If we get behind on it it stacks up extremely quickly. Delivering all this crap can’t be profitable for the Post Office.